Learn basic Korean greetings that you can use when meeting someone for the first time
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| INTRODUCTION |
| Tim: ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค (Bangapseumnida) KoreanClass101.com ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ (yeoreobun). ํ์ ๋๋ค. (Tim imnida.) |
| Debbie: Debbie here. Let Me Introduce Myself in Korean. In this lesson, you will learn how to greet someone and introduce yourself politely. |
| Tim: Simply by using the phrase ์ ๋ (name or nationality) + ์ ๋๋ค ("imnida") |
| Debbie: You'll also learn how to say "hello," "nice to meet you," and "by the way" in Korean. Tim, do you know where this conversation takes place? |
| Tim: "At the airport," which is ๊ณตํญ์์. |
| Debbie: The conversation is between... |
| Tim: "Tim and Julia (Korean agent)"( ํ๊ณผ ์ฅด๋ฆฌ์). |
| Debbie: Since this conversation is between two adults who don't know each other well, the speakers will use formal Korean. |
| Tim: ์กด๋๋ง์ ๋๋ค. (jondaenmal imnida.) "Formal Korean." |
| Debbie: Let's listen to the conversation. |
| DIALOGUE |
| ํ: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ์: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ์ฅด๋ฆฌ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| ํ: ์ ๋ ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ์: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทผ๋ฐ, ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ ํธํ๋์? |
| ํ: ์, ํธํ์ด์. |
| English Host: Letโs hear the conversation one time slowly. |
| ํ: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ์: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ์ฅด๋ฆฌ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| ํ: ์ ๋ ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ์: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทผ๋ฐ, ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ ํธํ๋์? |
| ํ: ์, ํธํ์ด์. |
| English Host: Now letโs hear it with the English translation. |
| ํ: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Hello. I am Tim. |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ์: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. ์ ๋ ์ฅด๋ฆฌ์์ ๋๋ค. ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Hello. I am Julia. Nice to meet you. |
| ํ: ์ ๋ ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Nice to meet you, too. I am American. |
| ์ค๋ฆฌ์: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋์ ๋๋ค. ๊ทผ๋ฐ, ๋นํ๊ธฐ๋ ํธํ๋์? |
| Debbie: I am Korean. By the way, did you have a comfortable plane ride? |
| ํ: ์, ํธํ์ด์. |
| Debbie: Yes. (It was) comfortable. |
| POST CONVERSATION BANTER |
| Debbie: I really liked that conversation. |
| Tim: Did you? |
| Debbie: So is that a typical conversation you'd have when you meet someone for the first time in Korea? |
| Tim: Yeah... Actually, you could ask one more question. |
| Debbie: And what would that be? |
| Tim: "Age," which is ๋์ด. |
| Debbie: What? Age! |
| Tim: Yes. |
| Debbie: So...do Koreans really ask about someone's age when they meet for the first time? Like, "How old are you?" |
| Tim: Yes. They would ask ๋ช ์ด์ด์ธ์? ("How old are you?") I know it doesn't make sense to you, but it does to me and other Koreans. |
| Debbie: Wow! I did not know that! So Tim, Hi. I'm Debbie. How old are you? |
| Tim: No, no, no... You can't ask it like that, Debbie! That isn't polite enough. |
| Debbie: Really? Then tell me how. |
| Tim: Okay. First, I'd say ์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. ("Hello, I am Tim.") ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ("Nice to meet you.") Now, you try it. |
| Debbie: ์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์ ๋ ๋ฐ๋น ์ ๋๋ค. ("Hello, I am Debbie.") ์ ๋ ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ("Nice to meet you too.") |
| Tim: And then, you'd say ๊ทผ๋ฐ ํ์จ, ํ์จ๋ ๋ช ์ด์ด์ธ์? ("By the way Tim, how old are you?") |
| Debbie: Oh, I see! But it still seems like a strange question to ask someone you've just met. I wouldn't ask someone their age even if I were Korean. |
| Tim: I know... Okay. Let's move on to the vocabulary. |
| VOCAB LIST |
| Debbie: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for this lesson. |
| : The first word we shall see is: |
| Tim: ์๋ ํ์ธ์ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: Hello. |
| Tim: ์๋ ํ์ธ์ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ์๋ ํ์ธ์ [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ์ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: I (humble) |
| Tim: ์ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ์ [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ์ ๋๋ค [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: is, am, are |
| Tim: ์ ๋๋ค [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ์ ๋๋ค [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: nice to meet you |
| Tim: ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: American |
| Tim: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: Korean (people) |
| Tim: ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ๋นํ๊ธฐ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: airplane |
| Tim: ๋นํ๊ธฐ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ๋นํ๊ธฐ [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ํธํ๋ค [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: to be convenient, to be comfortable |
| Tim: ํธํ๋ค [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ํธํ๋ค [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ์ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: yes |
| Tim: ์ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ์ [natural native speed] |
| : Next: |
| Tim: ๊ทผ๋ฐ [natural native speed] |
| Debbie: but, however (colloquial version of ๊ทธ๋ฐ๋ฐ) |
| Tim: ๊ทผ๋ฐ [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Tim: ๊ทผ๋ฐ [natural native speed] |
| VOCAB AND PHRASE USAGE |
| Debbie: Let's have a closer look at the usuage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| Debbie: Let's have a closer look at the usuage for some of the words and phrases from this lesson. |
| The first word is... |
| Tim: ์๋ ํ์ธ์. |
| Debbie: This means "hello," and it's a very formal way to greet someone. |
| Tim: ์.๋ .ํ.์ธ.์. ์๋ ํ์ธ์. |
| Debbie: If ์๋ ํ์ธ์ is a formal way, what would be an informal way? |
| Tim: ์๋ ! |
| Debbie: Is that it? Just ์๋ ? |
| Tim: Yes. So it normally goes like thisโฆ์๋ ๋ฐ๋น. ("Hello, Debbie.") And you go... |
| Debbie: ์๋ ํ. ("Hello, Tim.") Is that all? |
| Tim: Yes! That's all you'd need to say. |
| Debbie: Okay. I have a quick question. |
| Tim, I often hear Korean kids say something else too. |
| Tim: Like...๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ? |
| Debbie: Yes, that was it! Can you say that again? |
| Tim: ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ. ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋น ("Hello, hello, Debbie.") ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ KoreanClass101.com ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ. ("Hello, hello, KoreanClass101.com listeners.") |
| Debbie: That sounds much more fun and interesting. Can we hear all three of those again? Okay, listeners, please repeat after Tim. |
| Tim: ์๋ ํ์ธ์, ์๋ , ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: Next, we have "nice to meet you" said in a formal way. |
| Tim: ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ง.๋.์. ๋ฐ.๊ฐ.์ต.๋.๋ค. ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค sounds very similar to ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ ("hello, hello"), which you just mentioned. |
| Tim: Yes, actually ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ comes from the phrase ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: So an informal way to say "nice to meet you" in Korean would be... |
| Tim: ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ! Debbie, why don't you say "nice to meet you" to all the KoreanClass101.com listeners? |
| Debbie: Okay. I will try. Here goesโฆ"KoreanClass101.com ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ, ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ, ๋ฐฉ๊ฐ!" |
| Tim: Very well done! "By the way," Debbie? |
| Debbie: What is it, Tim? |
| Tim: That is the last phrase... |
| Debbie: What!? Ah, "by the way." |
| Tim: Yes, "By the way" is ๊ทผ๋ฐ in Korean. |
| Debbie: Can you repeat that one more time? |
| Tim: ๊ทผ๋ฐ. ๊ทผ.๋ฐ. ๊ทผ๋ฐ |
| Debbie: ๊ทผ๋ฐ, ํ... |
| Tim: What is it, Debbie? |
| Debbie: How old are you? |
| Tim: Good try, Debbie! You got me! |
| Debbie: Okay, let's move on to the grammar. |
Lesson focus |
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| Debbie: The focus of this lesson is on how to politely introduce yourself using the phrase ์ ๋ (name or nationality) + ์ ๋๋ค ("imnida"). So, Tim, is ์ ๋๋ค a "be" verb? |
| Tim: Yes, actually, its original form is ์ด๋ค, meaning "to be." However, the polite form becomes ์ ๋๋ค ("imnida"); Korean people often say ์ ๋๋ค ("imnida") when introducing their names. |
| So it goes like thisโฆ์ ๋, which in English is "I," and your name plus ์ ๋๋ค. For example, with my name, it's ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. ("I am Tim.") ์ .๋. ํ. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: How about with my name, Debbie, Tim? |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ๋ฐ๋น ์ ๋๋ค. ("I am Debbie.") ์ .๋. ๋ฐ.๋น. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋ฐ๋น ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: How about a Japanese name like...Yoko? |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ์์ฝ ์ ๋๋ค. ("I am Yoko.") ์ .๋. ์.์ฝ. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ์์ฝ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: How about a Chinese name like...Linn? |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ๋ฆฐ ์ ๋๋ค. ("I am Linn.") ์ .๋. ๋ฆฐ. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋ฆฐ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Okay. I got it. Are you guys ready to try it with your name? Please repeat after Tim, but don't say his name. Use your name instead. Tim? |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Tim: I couldn't hear your names, guys. This time, try saying it louder... |
| ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: Great! I heard so many names from all over the world. So, Tim, what else? |
| Tim: ์ ๋๋ค can be used when speaking about your nationality just like in English. "I am American." |
| Debbie: So...it also goes like thisโฆ์ ๋ ("I") + nationality + ์ ๋๋ค. Tim, you are Korean. "Korean" in Korean is...? |
| Tim: ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋. ํ.๊ตญ.์ฌ.๋. ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋. |
| Debbie: "I am Korean" in Korean is...? |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค ("I am Korean.") ์ .๋. ํ.๊ตญ.์ฌ.๋. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. How about you, Debbie? |
| Debbie: "I am Korean too." (์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค.) Now let's practice with the listeners. Tim, you have to help me out here. |
| Tim: Okay. |
| Debbie: For the American listeners... |
| Tim: ๋ฏธ.๊ตญ.์ฌ.๋. ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋. |
| Debbie: Can you say "I am American" in Korean? |
| Tim: ์ .๋. ๋ฏธ.๊ตญ.์ฌ.๋. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Okay, American listeners, please repeat after Tim. |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: Great! How about for our Japanese listeners... |
| Tim: ์ผ.๋ณธ.์ฌ.๋. ์ผ๋ณธ์ฌ๋ |
| Debbie: Can you say "I am Japanese" in Korean? |
| Tim: ์ .๋. ์ผ.๋ณธ.์ฌ.๋. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ผ๋ณธ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Okay. Japanese listeners, it's your turn. Please repeat after Tim. |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ์ผ๋ณธ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: Wonderful! How about for our Chinese listeners... |
| Tim: ์ค.๊ตญ.์ฌ.๋ ์ค๊ตญ์ฌ๋ |
| Debbie: Can you say "I am Chinese" in Korean? |
| Tim: ์ .๋. ์ค.๊ตญ.์ฌ.๋. ์ .๋.๋ค. ์ ๋ ์ค๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Okay. Chinese listeners, it's your turn. Please repeat after Tim. |
| Tim: ์ ๋ ์ค๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Debbie: Excellent! We'd love to practice with all of the different nationalities, but unfortunately, we are out of time. If you'd like to know how to write or say your nationality in Korean, please ask us in the comment section. |
| Tim: Okay. let's quickly review the lesson! Listeners, I want you to think of what you would say if you met me in Korea for the first time. |
| Debbie: Tim is going to introduce himself first. Please introduce yourself after he does, using ์๋ ํ์ธ์ ("hello") plus ์ ๋ ("I"), plus your name, plus ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Tim: Okay, listeners, here it goes. ์๋ ํ์ธ์ ์ ๋ ํ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: Next, do you remember how to say "Nice to meet you" in Korean? Tim is going to say it to you. Please simply say it back! |
| Tim: Okay, listeners, here it is. ๋ง๋์ ๋ฐ๊ฐ์ต๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: Great! Now, Tim is going to tell you his nationality. Please tell him yours by using ์ ๋ plus your nationality plus ์ ๋๋ค. |
| Tim: And finally, ์ ๋ ํ๊ตญ์ฌ๋ ์ ๋๋ค. |
| [pause] |
| Debbie: WOW! Excellent, you guys! |
Outro |
| Debbie: Okay. That's all for this lesson. Okay, everyone. See you next time. |
| Tim: ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ ์๋ ! |
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